Quotes About Certainty

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. Thomas Edison, American inventor

The certainty of incoherence in reading, the inevitable crumbling of the soundest constructions, is the deep truth of books. Since appearance constitutes a limit, what truly exists is a dissolution into common opacity rather than a development of lucid thinking. The apparent unchangingness of books is deceptive: each book is also the sum of the misunderstandings it occasions.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

Yes, but we do not know that he snores, my love,' Lady Ombersley pointed out. 'Indeed, we may be almost certain that he does not, for his manners are so very gentleman-like!' 'A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything!

Well, damn it, I think that prosy fool Bridlington was right for once in his life! You've gone stark, staring mad! Very true! I've known it for this half hour and more.

Of a certainty Madame has died, Leonie said wickedly. Tiens, c'est bien drole!

Ned! if you don't tell me, it will be quite shameful of you! You always know everything!''Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of,' Carlyon replied, looking back at him with his faint smile. 'What a sad blow it would be to my vanity if you found I could be just as easily mistaken as anyone else! You must let me keep my own counsel until I am certain.

I never believe anything until I get proof, replied Hemingway. But what I have got is flair! I have heard you say so, meekly responded his subordinate.

Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of

You need not be afraid that I have just fallen in love yesterday. I am quite sure of my mind in this. A month is fully long enough for that.' 'Or a day or an hour,' said the Earl musingly.

This is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not in the least an essential element of verity.

You cannot tell me me.

We need to work together to support common-sense solutions to establish and maintain regulatory certainty and predictability for the mining industry and reduce excessive, duplicative, and expensive permitting delays.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

Alaskans need some certainty and clarity over how the Pebble Partnership intends to proceed. I understand the complexity of a project like this, and I appreciate the investments that have been made in Alaska already. But a reliable timeline has been missing, and I hope that the companies will provide one soon.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

The average religious person has their beliefs, but they're not trying to get people fired who don't have their beliefs. But zealots do do that. It's not enough for them to believe it; they can't tolerate other people who don't believe what they believe, and they have this absolute certainty that they're right.

She badly wanted to go on in this room in the place where she knew precisely who she was, the edges firm, the corners strong.

Your disbelief cures nothing.

We were inert targets at which to aim their certainty, and even if we knew they were wrong, the men couldn't even imagine not being right. So many of them would never know what was actually true.